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==Monuments== [[File:Steinadler aus Granit (Simplon Adler), Simplonpass (Schweiz).jpg|thumb|The Simplon Eagle]] During the [[Second World War]], officers of the 11th Alpine Brigade of the [[Swiss Army]], based in Zwischbergen, proposed the construction of the stone monument [[Erwin Friedrich Baumann#The Eagle on the Simplon pass|depicting an eagle]], the symbol of the brigade. The Bernese architect [[Erwin Friedrich Baumann]] designed the monument based on the use of granite blocks from the old fortification of [[Gondo (Switzerland)|Gondo]] (a town near the pass) to build a statue about nine meters high. The monument was inaugurated in September 1944. In 2005, a memorial was built representing the 200th anniversary of the construction of the "Napoleon Road".
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